welcome back. i would first like to give a big ole shout out and thank you to everyone for the amazing response to this blog. i am loving reading the comments, observations and suggestions. keep them coming!

last night was the perfect night for viewing the show here in philadelphia. it was snowy and cozy and therefore a great atmosphere to watch some first, america's next top model and then some project runway. i watched this week with my friends erik and sven. we got some vietnamese take out and a bottle of red wine. for dessert we indulged in some coconut sorbet with lavender and fresh mint and some plantain chocolate muffins that i baked. yummy! its always fun to watch the show a little buzzed with friends, and of course with la dvr we had to rewind a few select moments and do some serious dishing. some i will discuss and some i, for the sake of getting sued, will not. let's get this puppy started.

opening credits. they never change yet somehow i always find something new to amuse me. this week is at the very end when kit does her best heidi klum impression. speaking of heidi, you know i am dying to dish about the victoria's secret fashion show. overall it was pretty damn entertaining but why does everyone look like they are ready to go film a porn? the whole thing was all a bit to gratuitous for my liking. i will say its kind of funny to watch these girls who get to wear some of the most gorgeous clothes in the world suddenly have to dress up as a bell or as santa's little whore. the highlight was definitely the spice girls. super pop!!! disclaimer: i obviously had to edit myself from some pretty awesome commentary for the sake of bridge burning.

chris and rami try to come up with ideas for a project runway fragrance. a mixture of tears, sweat and chinese food.

sign me up! i have been told that i smelled like kung pao chicken by my friend tammy...wait a minute...that's...that's disgusting.

what is it with the male topless shots this season? i've seen jack's boobies and kevin angel fatone's boobies and...have we seen ricky's boobies? i'm officially keeping score. i wanna see me some steven boobies, some christian boobies...christian boobies? sacrilege.

heidi enters to xylophonic sparkles and brings out the winning and the losing and the top and bottom 2 but the winning can be traded for but one of the bottom and the winning designer chooses but can trade and the bottom and then that model will....basically who cares. we just wanna see some designers designing!

jack picks ricky's model. ricky is pissed. poor ricky. he must have shitty karma or the stars are out of alignment or something because kinky cop just can't catch a break...on any level...on this entire program. i bet rami is just going to carry him into the reunion show in an old pickle jar filled with clear liquid labeled "tears".

heidi tells the designers that tim is upstairs in la workroom waiting for them with a familiar face and she has brought some old friends with her. luckily for dvr i caught this nanosecond shot where steven gasps, i means gah...hasps! and no one else even reacts except for sweet p and her reaction is just sort of to look at what the hell he was gasping at.

you know steven is all "oh my gay...its betty white and...and i bet she is bringing the rest of the golden girls with her. my dreams have come true. all of the dreams i have ever dreamed are coming true right before my very squinty eyes". thank you project runway. thank you!

the designers go into the workroom and are greeted by tim and ms. garcia.

elisa.

the designers notice there are 12 boards with 12 heinous photos on them. nina explains that elle has been documenting trends since the beginning of time and that some are good and some are not so good. captain crunch jillian notices she is wearing overalls and that they happen to be one of the "bad" trends. pretty funny. tim picks names. the designers get to pick the "bad" trend they would like to work with. can they please get a cooler bag? they've been using that black velvet with a gold braid drawstring since season one. icky poo!

jack picks pleather. victorya picks underwear as outerwear. so on and so forth until they are all paired up with a "bad" trend. um...i was kind of excited by most of these trends. does this mean i am "out"? do i need to go to fashion designer therapy? give it a few years. all of these trends will be trendy again. trendy trendy trendy!

nina announces that they will be working in teams of 3. each designer must create a look to make a collection which incorporates all 3 trends. basically take 3 foul concepts and combine them for a modern result. designers pick their own teams in the most awkward bumper car-ed "who is standing next to me and do i or do i not totally think they suck" way.

teams discuss how they are going to lump these trends together and who will be team leader.

mood fabrics.

there's this funny shot where kit bangs into chris march. he wasn't having it.

kit and her little sisters christina and jackie jump up and down and high five each other and say fierce. christina tells us that her team is "pretty fierce" and like that like um she has named her team like um "team star because team star is like hot...like star...like celebrity". jackie says "let's make it fabulous"! i just got so overwhelmed with homophobia just now that i like um just like um threw up all over myself. thanks girls!

back to the workroom. steven's humor level is a bit clearer this week.

team ricky edumacates elisa on how to drape on the form. again...no draping class at moonbeam dragon wing molten lava fashion school? ricky discusses how, once upon a time, he was a modern dancer and how his instructors used to smoke pot and...basically he is saying that he thinks elisa is a big ole pothead and that he can put on his special drug goggles and navigate the waters of the elisaian ocean.

god i hate ricky's trucker hat collection. that should be one of the bad trends they need to redesign.

now here is a dvr pausetastic moment. a rewind. pause. rewind and crack the hell up moment. christian spinning around and around in circles in front of the mirror. she is such a wack. you just gotta love her.

nick saturn commercial. hey nick. i know you are reading this. great seeing you the other night! it was fun! did you get any good dirt from mr. sebelia on the plane ride? we gotta dish. ps: what's your booking agent's number? mama wants in on the college speaking tour shortbus. shit...help a brother out.

i love me some betty white. 1.800.PET.MEDS. have you ever noticed the boxes that she holds up are totally glued together? don't these people think we notice this stuff?

day 2.

kits hair. its called conditioner honey. after you shampoo, just take a little bit and work through the hair. let sit. then rinse. it nourishes the scalp and moisturizes the hair shaft.

steven does his best tim gunn impression...um...not so much. leave that schtick to santino. you can always tell when they take laughing moments from other moments and try to edit them in a way that it looks like its actually in response to a funny moment that's happening but its actually not from that moment but another moment....ungh...you know what i'm saying right?

victorya is kind of creepy. the way she interacts with ricky reminds me of my flat pattern professor who would speak really low and then get behind you and breathe some weird demand in your ear...oh..my..god...i have the willies.

tim "in the spirit of wanting you to succeed"? sends in the models. 30 minute fit session with the models. they put the looks together and see just how wackass they've turned out.

brother clock?

victorya and ricky are engaged in an awesome game of passive aggressive table tennis.

tim enters the workroom. ....and the winner of the new catchphrase 2008 season 4 is....drumroll please....with a score of 98.25...that's 98.25...."talk to me"...and the crowd goes wild.

tim meets up with the teams to drop some knowledge. team star is fierce. team chris is not. jillian looks straight out of an episode of family ties with her hair, plaid shirt tied in a knot at the waist and i'm sure they aren't, but i wish they were, gloria vanderbilt jeans. alex p. keaton would be proud. tim has issues with the cohesion of team ricky's collection. victorya babbles some soft spoken self involved mumble about blah blah and yadda yadda.

tim super obvious voice over.

victorya and ricky have some back and forth banter about victorya not having balls and ricky being a pussy. they are both just sucking the life force out of me at this point. from now on i will collectively refer to them as VRICKYA.

almost the end of day 2....ahhhh...the brother clock makes an appearance. you know there were some phone calls made after this episode.

jillian is feeling let down by kevin's inability to sew quickly and to hit the hand position on the chorus of bye bye bye.

the designers hit the workroom after breakfast at denny's and massages for some last minute schtuff.

vrickya.

tim enters and tells the designers that they have 2 hours to prepare for the show and to send their models to the loreal hair and paris makeup bluefly saturn macy's banana republic tresemme i.n.c product integration nation captain crunch joey fatone station.

everyone gussies up their models.

vrickya.

christina vogues.

kevin fatone's model, for the sake of the camera, jumps up and down with such glee and delight. she is so excited that her 1978 high waisted pleated denim shorts are a perfect fit. her mother said before she went on the show "i don't care if they staple a deer carcass to your face and make you wear a dress made out of ziploc bags full of baby vomit. you smile and act like that's the cutest damn deer carcass you ever did smile through. you are on project runway and you gonna make mama some cash. we finally gonna have a good christmas this year. ya hear me girl? ya hear?"

jillian feels guilty about being a bitch towards fatone.

christian gushes about the sheer fabulosity of the every fierce fiber of his hot being. he thinks that ricky's collection is "horribly ugly" and didn't think chris's was any better.

heidi walks the runway to the xylophonic sparkle town soundtrack. "one day you're in the next day you are wearing a pleather fringed dance costume with a bra over your baggy sweater and overalls".

jillian: "we decided to incorporate awl 3 trends into awl 3 looks". i thought this look was super cute and very well made. it was a sexy twist on your standard overall and the addition of that very 50′s baby blue chiffon/organza/tulle?

top was the perfect touch. the softness of the bow and ruffle really softened the angular nature of the overalls. kudos!

kevin angel fatone: the shorts, for having the usually frightening ingredient list of high waist, pleats and shiny denim actually turned out pretty cute. i think the idea for the top was headed in the right direction but ended up looking like one of carmen webber's fabric croissants came back to try and strangle the top off the model.

rami: it didn't feel as if it was pushed as far as it could have been but still very youthful and potentially a huge commercial success. i hate to say it, but it is kind of jessica simpson-y ala dukes of hazzard.

team chris: shoulder pads, dancewear, baggy sweater.

chris: the dress was sleek and fit well. the color was way too wheaty. all of the colors in the world and you pick tan? the jacket fits poorly and has weird sleeves. the print was pretty but was ironically very "grandma's sofa"...and that cheap rhinestone jewelry? eek!

sweet p: a wheat potato sack with a dickie. thank god for those bluefly accessories. the belt was the only saving grace. poor sweet p. she seems really...well...sweet, but her clothes have been pretty uninspiring thus far. sweet p., my dear, i believe your days are numbered.

steven: the fabrication is pretty and thankfully someone in this group thought to try to add some excitement to the collection. well, its your basic wrap tunic over leggings. wearable?...yes. commercial?...yes. inspired?....hell to the no!

team christina star: pleather, zoot suit, fringe.

christian: the jacket is fresh, skirt is sophisticated...a tad too long but still cute. that aluminum sack for a shirt? not so much. i would have to say a little less fierce and fabulous chit chatter and a little more sit yo ass down and really knock our socks off.

kit. cute yet sexy silhouette. i like the little vest and cap sleeve and dress length. i am kind of confused by that big weird tie thing hanging down off of the neck. so many prints...so little time. its almost as if she had her whole look sent to china to get samples made and there was some obvious chinese to english miscommunication and they sent back the look just before the runway show and it was way too late for her to ok it because she was already seated to watch the show and the cameras were rolling and it came out on the runway all sorts of print-tastical.

team vrickya: neon, cut-outs, underwear as outerwear.

ricky: sasha cohen...calling sasha cohen. this is very figure skating costume. its very power 90′s, cross colors, fresh prince of bel air. the fabrication is too too much...there is nothing grounding it...it is so up in the clouds. not the best finishing job in the world.

elisa. i love this look. i think it addresses all three components in such a subtle way but the visual outcome is bold and graphic and nostalgic and fresh. you can really see that she "felt" this. it is really exciting to watch a designer surprise even themselves sometimes. awesome!

victorya: not the worst look ever. the bodice was graphic and cool and fit well but the skirt wasn't thought out or even interesting. the fabrication on the skirt fell flat. again, it looks like a figure skating costume and in a weird way this look is very proenza schouler for target.

judging.

in a twist, the winner is announced first. congrats to team jillian. i would concur. also team christina star is safe. i personally would have made them squirm a little bit first but agree in the second place decision.

the remaining designers do their best to dig themselves out of the shit box that they are sitting in.

judges judging.

i usually try not to step on the judges toes but i must call out the fact that both ms. karan and mr. kors gushed over sweet p's dickie sack...haha...her ball gown...haha. did i miss something? do i need to get my eyes checked? i thought that was some serious uggness.

vrickya battles on the runway.

again with the "who should be out" bullshit. why do they make them do this? what is the point? its embarrassing.

the judges yap it out.

sweet p is in.

elisa is in.

steven is in.

victorya is in.

kinky cop is in.

chris is out.

i must say that i don't think this was the right arena for chris. he is an amazing costume designer and i have no doubt that he will do just fine. i look forward to seeing many super creative things come from him.

i must admit that when i watched the show last night i was kind of ...eh. upon watching and rewatching and rewatching and rewatching i think this was quite a good episode with some good looks as a result. see what happens when they get a bit more time to work on their looks? i still haven't decided on an outro yet so...this week its bye bitches? i didn't steal the bitches bye? i'm a dork. peace out!